“If I can’t bless same-sex couples, then I don’t bless palm trees and olive branches either.” The parish priest of Bonassola Giulio Mignani he is not new to personal initiatives. He also demonstrated this on Palm Sunday. To protest against the document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith which denies the blessing to unions of same-sex couples, he decided not to bless the olive trees in the first celebration of Holy Week.
The priest from the Ligurian village, who had already taken a stand for the rainbow families, explained everything in the sermon.
“The Church has also blessed some weapons and today how can you forbid the blessing to a couple who love each other only because they are homosexual? ».
Already in 2017 he gave a favorable opinion to unions between same-sex couples, causing controversy, but also filling his church. Sunday explained, according to reports Republic, which the blessing of the Palms is «connected to procession in memory of the triumphal entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. Not being able to do this procession, due to the anti-Covid rules, I personally think it makes no sense then to bless the Palms. But I am also extremely happy – he added – that my decision not to bless the palms and olive trees takes place a few days after the publication of the document of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith “.
“In the church everything is blessed, not only the palms but sometimes, unfortunately, even the weapons have been blessed”, he added, “however, the true and sincere love of two people cannot be blessed because they are homosexuals. But, even more serious, is the fact that their love continues to be called “sin”. It is certainly not homosexual people who lose out, who can easily do without the blessing of the Church, because in the meantime there is God to bless them. Rather, the Church is losing out ”.
In 2018 he said «If euthanasia it means “good death” I think I would be comforted to know that a law is in place that would allow me to die without further suffering ». On April 24 last year he had decided to play Bella Ciao in his church of Santa Margherita di Antiochia.
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